Inequality and the health-care system in the USA

SL Dickman, DU Himmelstein, S Woolhandler - The Lancet, 2017 - thelancet.com
Widening economic inequality in the USA has been accompanied by increasing disparities
in health outcomes. The life expectancy of the wealthiest Americans now exceeds that of the …

Population health in an era of rising income inequality: USA, 1980–2015

J Bor, GH Cohen, S Galea - The Lancet, 2017 - thelancet.com
Income inequality in the USA has increased over the past four decades. Socioeconomic
gaps in survival have also increased. Life expectancy has risen among middle-income and …

Two-stage differences in differences

J Gardner - arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.05943, 2022 - arxiv.org
A recent literature has shown that when adoption of a treatment is staggered and average
treatment effects vary across groups and over time, difference-in-differences regression …

Difference-in-differences with variation in treatment timing

A Goodman-Bacon - Journal of econometrics, 2021 - Elsevier
The canonical difference-in-differences (DD) estimator contains two time periods,” pre” and”
post”, and two groups,” treatment” and” control”. Most DD applications, however, exploit …

Estimating dynamic treatment effects in event studies with heterogeneous treatment effects

L Sun, S Abraham - Journal of econometrics, 2021 - Elsevier
To estimate the dynamic effects of an absorbing treatment, researchers often use two-way
fixed effects regressions that include leads and lags of the treatment. We show that in …

Difference-in-differences with multiple time periods

B Callaway, PHC Sant'Anna - Journal of econometrics, 2021 - Elsevier
In this article, we consider identification, estimation, and inference procedures for treatment
effect parameters using Difference-in-Differences (DiD) with (i) multiple time periods,(ii) …

Pretest with caution: Event-study estimates after testing for parallel trends

J Roth - American Economic Review: Insights, 2022 - aeaweb.org
This paper discusses two important limitations of the common practice of testing for
preexisting differences in trends (“pre-trends”) when using difference-in-differences and …

Valuing the global mortality consequences of climate change accounting for adaptation costs and benefits

T Carleton, A Jina, M Delgado… - … Quarterly Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Using 40 countries' subnational data, we estimate age-specific mortality-temperature
relationships and extrapolate them to countries without data today and into a future with …

The long-run effects of childhood insurance coverage: Medicaid implementation, adult health, and labor market outcomes

A Goodman-Bacon - American Economic Review, 2021 - aeaweb.org
This paper estimates the long-run effects of childhood Medicaid eligibility on adult health
and economic outcomes using the program's original introduction (1966–1970) and its …

Tuskegee and the health of black men

M Alsan, M Wanamaker - The quarterly journal of economics, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract For 40 years, the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male passively
monitored hundreds of adult black men with syphilis despite the availability of effective …